Youth & Community Programs Manager

Youth & Community Programs Manager

Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado is a leading statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to motivating and enabling people to become active stewards of Colorado's natural resources. Colorado's outdoor resources contribute greatly to our health, happiness, and state economy, but they also face ongoing stresses and require care and stewardship to ensure long-term sustainability. Leveraging four decades of experience in outdoor stewardship volunteerism, we engage 3,500 volunteers in hands-on stewardship work each year.

We strive to foster statewide, cross-industry collaboration to encourage a unified approach to caring for Colorado. Our small staff of 12-14 employees are a passionate and mission driven group that value community building while maintaining a work life balance.

The Community Programs Manager position is a full-time, non-exempt professional position that reports to the Director of Programs and is responsible for managing VOC's Denver Metro area community engagement programs. These programs and projects are designed to broaden the variety of people involved in outdoor stewardship through community partnerships and the implementation of unique programming or project opportunities. Current programs include our high school leadership Cairn Program, youth and family service days, the Grossman Scholarship Program, local Healthy Communities projects and corporate engagement through our Team Stewardship Day program.

A large portion of this role includes community outreach, project implementation, and partnership development. This role can expect a 50% – 50% split between administrative duties and partnership or field-based project work. This is an office/remote hybrid position based in Lakewood, CO.

The following competencies are expected from all staff members at VOC:

• Communication: effective and timely communication, both orally and written
• Teamwork: works well with others, contributes to a positive team environment
• Service: provides exceptional service to customers, partners, volunteers, and donors
• Leadership: demonstrates leadership and decision-making abilities in the organization
• Initiative: assesses and initiates things independently and to help improve the organization
• Accountability: reliable and inspires trust in others
• Equity: commitment to engaging in practices that support inclusion in the organization

Responsibilities

LOCAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

• Develop and steward key partnerships that engage local community members in programming.
• Create and maintain relationships with local land managers, non-profits and other groups to implement projects that support our community program goals.
• Assist VOC's Outreach and Engagement Manager to recruit new and existing volunteers and partners for local programs and projects.
• Manage outreach and selection of 20-25 students and 6-8 mentors applying to take part in VOC's high school leadership program, Cairn.
• Complete annual outreach for VOC's Grossman Scholarship Program.
• Participate and represent VOC with relevant community coalitions and stakeholder meetings. (Ex: YES Coalition, Metro Denver Nature Alliance).

LOCAL COMMUNITY PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

• Develop and implement annual program plans that support VOC's mission and strategic priorities.
• Create frameworks, goals, outcomes, systems, and processes for new and existing community program offerings to ensure long-term success.
• Provide analysis and evaluation of community engagement programs to make sound decisions regarding program growth, staffing levels, volunteer leadership, etc.
• Plan and implement Cairn monthly projects or activities from September to April.
• Manage annual application and selection of 6 Grossman Scholars in conjunction with the…